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Bruce Fein, American lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said the Nigerian government ought to be the ones on trial, not Kanu.

Fein in a release obtained by SaharaReporters on Thursday stated that what the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, was doing with his troops in Ukraine was tea party compared to what the Muhammadu Buhari government is inflicting on the Biafran leader and Biafra.

The IPOB leader has been detained in the facility of Nigerias secret police, the Department of State Services, for over 10 months having been arrested since June 27, 2021.

He had been arraigned several times before the Federal High Court, Abuja over charges of treason, treasonable felony, terrorism, and illegal possession of firearms, among others, with the latest court sitting on Wednesday.

The court, on Wednesday, had declined to grant bail to the detained IPOB leader.

Justice Binta Nyako had held that Kanu must explain the reason why he breached the previous bail that was given to him before he could enjoy another favourable discretion from the court.

Reacting in a statement on Thursday, Fein said Kanu should not be the one facing trial; rather it should be the Nigerian government.

He said, The Fulani-controlled government of Nigeria should be on trial, not Nnamdi Kanu. The formers prosecution of the latter turns the law on its headfrom an instrument of justice to a weapon of oppression.

Judicial notice can be taken of the following: The Nigerian government attempted to assassinate Nnamdi Kanu in September 2017 for exercising his constitutional and international law right to self-determination by the people of Biafra.

The Abia High Court has awarded MNK N5billion in damages for the violation. The attempted assassination disqualifies the Nigerian government from prosecuting MNK for lack of impartiality required by due process and international law.

The Nigerian government continues to deny the people of Biafra their unalienable right to self-determination enshrined in jus cogens (mandatory) international law and Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The Nigerian government conspired with the Government of Kenya to kidnap and torture Nnamdi Kanu in June 2021. The Nigerian government conspired with the Government of Kenya to subject Nnamdi Kanu to extraordinary rendition to Abuja, Nigeria, in violation of international law and relevant extradition treaties.

Since his criminal extraordinary rendition, Nnamdi Kanu has been denied access to counsel of his choice in violation of international human rights law and the Nigerian Constitutionincluding myself on multiple occasions.

The Nigerian government speaking through Chief Judge Tosho had authorised a secret trial of Nnamdi Kanu in hopes of concealing its planned criminal judicial murder of the defendant.

The Nigerian government has denied MNK a universally recognised presumption of innocence by punishing him with 11 months of cruel imprisonment without a crumb of admissible evidence of guilt submitted to a court of law. The Nigerian government has denied MNK a right to a trial within a reasonable time after detention despite its army of law enforcement resources by compounding delay upon delay for nearly a year and scampering away from a hard trial date.

To underscore the stupendous magnitude of the Buhari-Malami-Nyako triumvirates denial of MNKs international law and constitutional rights, a comparison with the due process received by Nazi leaders accused of the most unspeakable crimes in the history of mankind by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg is instructive.

The Nazi leaders enjoyed access to counsel. MNK has not. The Nazi leaders enjoyed a presumption of innocence. MNK has not. The Nazi leaders received fair notice of the crimes alleged by the IMT prosecution team. The accusations against MNK are expressed at an infinite level of generality that confounds preparation of a defense.

The accused Nazi leaders (some of which were acquitted) were tried based upon volumes of authenticated evidence and testimony subject to cross-examination. The Nigerian government has failed to adduce a shred of authenticated evidence or testimony subject to cross-examinationthe greatest engine every invented for the discovery or truth.

The accused Nazi leaders were prosecuted within 8 months after the conclusion of World War II. MNK has yet to receive a trial after 11 months of agonizing detention.

Nigerias merciless lawlessness against MNK should thunder every day like a hammer on an anvil throughout world corridors of power until justice is done. What Russian President Putin is doing in Ukraine is a tea party compared to what the villainous Nigerian triumvirate is inflicting on the Biafran leader and Biafra. International ostracism and boycotts should be forthcoming accordingly.

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Staff and residents at Churchill Retirement Living celebrate the Jubilee with a tea party

People living in Bridgnorth joined Churchill Residential Living to celebrate the Queen's 70 years on the throne.

A special tea party, with fizz, refreshments, music and a Jubilee goodie bag, took place at the Mortimer Lodge development on Innage Lane.

Bernadette Hennelly, Churchills regional marketing manager said: We were delighted to welcome everyone to our special Jubilee Tea Party to celebrate The Queens extraordinary reign.

"There was a host of treats and great entertainment on offer, as well as some special Jubilee goody bags, and the chance to chat to our owners and meet our friendly sales team.

"It was a wonderful opportunity for people to enjoy the friendly and fun community atmosphere on offer here.

Mortimer Lodge is a collection of one and two bedroom privately-owned retirement apartments for those who enjoy an active, independent lifestyle.

Each apartment has been designed for those in their retirement years and has a number of safety and security features, such as a 24 hour emergency call line and a video entry system.

To find out more about the new apartments and further social events taking place throughout the summer, call 01746 708737 or visit churchillretirement.co.uk.

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Weve been following Drew Sidora and husband Ralph Pittmans journey to sort out their marital issuesthis season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. And on the May 22 episode, Kenya Moore had something to say to the RHOAhusband.

When the subject of Ralph's assistant came up during the first dinner of the groups New York trip, he remarked to Drew that they should just agree to disagree. Why are we even recounting this anymore? Ralph asked Drew. Something occurs to you one way, occurs to me a different way, and its fine.

After pointing out the similarities between Ralph and her ex-husband, Marc Daly, Kenya called out Drews husband for the way he was speaking to his wife. If my husband said that to me, I would flip this table over because that is so disrespectful. You just said, basically, shes lying. How it happened is not how it happened, she said. That would piss me the f--k off if somebody said that to me to my face, especially if Im hurting. Do you not understand that? Youre tearing her down.

Drew appreciated Kenyasspeaking up on her behalf. Kenyas actually communicating exactly how I feel, she shared in an interview during the episode. I hope Ralph really hears he could be doing some of the same things she experienced with Marc, and you see where they ended up.

Kenya tweeted after the episode aired, I really hate this for [Drew] just breaks my heart. Sending you a big hug and prayers for your beautiful family.

Andy Cohensaid he also enjoyed seeing Kenya show her support for Drew on the May 22 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, which featured Kandi Burruss as a guest. She was really, you know, kind of really trying to help Drew out, which I liked seeing, Andy said.

Kandi agreed, sharing her reaction to Kenya and Ralphs conversation on WWHL. I loved the fact that she was trying to look out for Drew, Kandi said. But she did put the pressure on Ralph. It was a little tense.

Speaking of this seasons drama, Kandi was hoping to get some answers of her own about the tea that was spilled about her during Kenya's tea party for daughter Brooklyn's third birthday in the May 15 episode of RHOA. She told Andy she didnt know who wrote that bit of gossip about her and was still trying to figure it out.

I thought yall were gonna play it in the episode, Kandi said. You know, how sometimes things are revealed in the episode?

Andy,who is an executive producer of The Real Housewives, assured Kandi he would be getting to the bottom of this. Were gonna find out at the reunion, Ill tell you that much, he said, to which Kandi replied, Well, please. I would love to know.

After that piping-hot tea about Kandi was spilled at Brooklyns birthday party, the beef that had been brewing between Drew and Shere Whitfield really came to a head and has recently seeped over onto social media. OK, well, let me just say theyve been going in on Twitter, OK? Twitter has been on fire with Drew and Shere, Kandi said on WWHL (clip below). Im trying to stay out of that cause the shade has been lethal, OK?

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However, Kandi did weigh in on their RHOA drama surrounding their mutual assistant and noted how it seemed both Drew and Shere were misdirecting their grievances. Love them both, but I just kind of felt like, at the birthday party, I just kind of felt like Drew got really upset, which I get it. Thats her husband. Shes supposed to take up for him. But it was based off of what the guy said, Kandi explained. So yall both are arguing about what this guy has said, so why are we going crazy on each other? Lets go crazy on the guy.

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To win a Republican primary in 2022, youll probably need to support a coup attempt.

Its not always sufficient David Perdue, a former senator, looks like hes going to lose to the incumbent governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, in next weeks primary, despite his support for the big lie but it makes a difference.

The Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, won his race on the strength of his enthusiastic support for Donald Trumps effort to subvert and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. As a state senator, Mastriano demanded that lawmakers invalidate Joe Bidens electoral votes. He attended the stop the steal rally on Jan. 6 and has continued to accuse Democrats of fraud. Mastriano has not commented on the 2024 election, but he has let it be known that he supports the view that state legislatures can assign electoral votes against the will of the voting public.

The Republican nominee for the Senate in North Carolina, Ted Budd, was similarly committed to Trumps effort to keep himself in office. He was among the 139 House members who objected to certifying the presidential election in Bidens favor.

J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for the Senate in Ohio, has not endorsed the claim that Biden stole the election from Trump, but he did play footsie with the idea during his campaign. I think weve got to investigate as much as possible, Vance said of the 2020 election results. I believe sunshine is the best disinfectant. And were going to learn a lot about what happened. But, you know, I think at a basic level we already know mostly what happened.

Overall, there are hundreds of Republican candidates in races across the country who have embraced Trumps false claims about his defeat. Many, like Budd, voted against accepting Bidens Electoral College victory. Some, like Mastriano, attended the stop the steal protest in Washington on Jan. 6. And others signed legal briefs or resolutions challenging Bidens victory.

The extent to which election denialism and pro-insurrectionism are now litmus tests for Republican politicians is clearly attributable to Trumps huge influence over the Republican Party. Despite his defeat, he is still the leader. But even if that were not true if, instead of the boss, Trump were only one influential figure among many there would still be reason for Republicans to embrace this view.

Thats because Republican election denialism is simply the strongest form of a belief that has defined the Republican Party since at least the Newt Gingrich era in the 1990s. For many Republicans, theirs is the only legitimate political party and their voters, irrespective of their actual numbers, are the only legitimate voters and the only legitimate majority. Democrats, from this vantage point, are presumptively illegitimate, their victories suspect, their policies un-American, even when they have the support of most people in the country.

You see this in the years of voter fraud hysteria that preceded Trumps claim, after the 2016 election, that he had been cheated of millions of votes. In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, he said, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.

In 2001, for example, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a crackdown on voter fraud, accusing unnamed actors (presumably Democrats) of manipulating elections. Votes have been bought, voters intimidated and ballot boxes stuffed, he said at a news conference that year. The polling process has been disrupted or not completed. Voters have been duped into signing absentee ballots believing they were applications for public relief. And the residents of cemeteries have infamously shown up at the polls on Election Day.

After the 2008 election, Republicans went into a frenzy over the group ACORN, accusing it of perpetrating fraud on a national scale. How else, after all, could you explain Barack Obamas unexpected victories in traditionally Republican states like Virginia, Indiana and North Carolina?

The obsession with nonexistent voter fraud is hard to ignore. But there were other ways that Republicans expressed their belief that they were the only legitimate members of the political community.

Sarah Palins rhetoric about the real America, very much in evidence during the 2008 presidential campaign We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America was one of these ways. So was the Tea Party movement, whose members understood themselves as a disenfranchised majority, under siege by a Democratic Party of burdensome illegal immigrants, ungrateful minorities and entitled young people. The Fox News commentator Glenn Beck captured some of this feeling during a 2010 broadcast. This is the Tea Party. This is you and me, he said. You are not alone, America. You are the majority.

Mitt Romneys infamous claim that there are 47 percent of the people who are dependent upon government, believe they are victims and are unable to take personal responsibility and care for their lives was condemned as classist and prejudiced during the 2012 presidential election. But you can also read it as an expression of the belief that there are some Americans who count the makers, in the language of his vice-presidential nominee, Paul Ryan and some Americans who dont.

Yes, the Republican Partys present-day election denialism is much more extreme than the rhetoric surrounding voter fraud or the idea that there is a real America. But the difference is ultimately one of degree, not kind: Republicans have been trying to write Democrats out of the political community in one way or another for decades. It was only a matter of time before this escalated to denying that Democrats and Democratic voters can win elections at all.

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Girl Scout Troop 222 spent time learning about manners and put them to use at their very own tea party. The Daisies were in charge of cupcakes. They took their bright purple and pink frostings and learned how to pipe out the frosting on to the top of the cupcake.

The Brownies chopped up the fruit and made what was called unicorn rainbow dessert dip. The unicorn dip was made from a whipped cream cheese and pudding dip. The dip was divided and had different bright colors added to each bowl for a festive treat.

The Juniors chopped up the vegetables for a healthy treat. They also assisted in making the unicorn dip.

Family was invited to attend and the Girl Scouts served the food that they had helped prepare.

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