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Nigerian man, Kunle Adeyanju, biking from London to Lagos has finally arrived in Nigeria

The London-based African man announced on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 that he will journey from London to Lagos State riding a bike.

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Court Strikes Out 8-Count Terrorism Charges Against Nnamdi Kanu

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, struck out 8 out if the 15-count charge preferred by the federal government against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

While ruling on a preliminary objection filed by the IPOB leader challenging the validity of the 15-count amended charge preferred against him by the Federal Government, Justice Nyako struck out the 8 counts.

According to him, count 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 have not disclosed any offense against the Defendant.

"In this instant preliminary objection application, I have read the counts and come to the conclusion that counts 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 have not disclosed any offense against the Defendant.

“‘Counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 15 shows some allegations, which the Defendant has to answer.
“The court shall proceed to try the defendant on those counts, Justice Nyako ordered.

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Gone But not Forgotten.....

I thought I'd write about the last four years, an eventful time for Bitcoin and me.

For those who don't know me, I'm Hal Finney. I got my start in crypto working on an early version of PGP, working closely with Phil Zimmermann. When Phil decided to start PGP Corporation, I was one of the first hires. I would work on PGP until my retirement. At the same time, I got involved with the Cypherpunks. I ran the first cryptographically based anonymous remailer, among other activities.

Fast forward to late 2008 and the announcement of Bitcoin. I've noticed that cryptographic graybeards (I was in my mid 50's) tend to get cynical. I was more idealistic; I have always loved crypto, the mystery and the paradox of it.

When Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he got a skeptical reception at best. Cryptographers have seen too many grand schemes by clueless noobs. They tend to have a knee jerk reaction.

I was more positive. I had long been interested in cryptographic payment schemes. Plus I was lucky enough to meet and extensively correspond with both Wei Dai and Nick Szabo, generally acknowledged to have created ideas that would be realized with Bitcoin. I had made an attempt to create my own proof of work based currency, called RPOW. So I found Bitcoin facinating.

When Satoshi announced the first release of the software, I grabbed it right away. I think I was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin. I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction, when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test. I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them.

Today, Satoshi's true identity has become a mystery. But at the time, I thought I was dealing with a young man of Japanese ancestry who was very smart and sincere. I've had the good fortune to know many brilliant people over the course of my life, so I recognize the signs.

After a few days, bitcoin was running pretty stably, so I left it running. Those were the days when difficulty was 1, and you could find blocks with a CPU, not even a GPU. I mined several blocks over the next days. But I turned it off because it made my computer run hot, and the fan noise bothered me. In retrospect, I wish I had kept it up longer, but on the other hand I was extraordinarily lucky to be there at the beginning. It's one of those glass half full half empty things.

The next I heard of Bitcoin was late 2010, when I was surprised to find that it was not only still going, bitcoins actually had monetary value. I dusted off my old wallet, and was relieved to discover that my bitcoins were still there. As the price climbed up to real money, I transferred the coins into an offline wallet, where hopefully they'll be worth something to my heirs.

Speaking of heirs, I got a surprise in 2009, when I was suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease. I was in the best shape of my life at the start of that year, I'd lost a lot of weight and taken up distance running. I'd run several half marathons, and I was starting to train for a full marathon. I worked my way up to 20+ mile runs, and I thought I was all set. That's when everything went wrong.

My body began to fail. I slurred my speech, lost strength in my hands, and my legs were slow to recover. In August, 2009, I was given the diagnosis of ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous baseball player who got it.

ALS is a disease that kills moter neurons, which carry signals from the brain to the muscles. It causes first weakness, then gradually increasing paralysis. It is usually fatal in 2 to 5 years. My symptoms were mild at first and I continued to work, but fatigue and voice problems forced me to retire in early 2011. Since then the disease has continued its inexorable progression.

Today, I am essentially paralyzed. I am fed through a tube, and my breathing is assisted through another tube. I operate the computer using a commercial eyetracker system. It also has a speech synthesizer, so this is my voice now. I spend all day in my power wheelchair. I worked up an interface using an arduino so that I can adjust my wheelchair's position using my eyes.

It has been an adjustment, but my life is not too bad. I can still read, listen to music, and watch TV and movies. I recently discovered that I can even write code. It's very slow, probably 50 times slower than I was before. But I still love programming and it gives me goals. Currently I'm working on something Mike Hearn suggested, using the security features of modern processors, designed to support "Trusted Computing", to harden Bitcoin wallets. It's almost ready to release. I just have to do the documentation.

And of course the price gyrations of bitcoins are entertaining to me. I have skin in the game. But I came by my bitcoins through luck, with little credit to me. I lived through the crash of 2011. So I've seen it before. Easy come, easy go.

That's my story. I'm pretty lucky overall. Even with the ALS, my life is very satisfying. But my life expectancy is limited. Those discussions about inheriting your bitcoins are of more than academic interest. My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm comfortable with my legacy.

~~Rest on Hal Finney

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It took 10 minutes to convict 14 year old George Stinney Jr. It was not until 2014 (70 years later) when the truth was revealed.

George Stinney Jr. was the youngest person sentenced to death in the 20th century in the United States.

He was only 14 years when he was executed by electric chair.
During his trial, until the day of his ex*****on, he always carried a bible in his hands, claiming for innocence.

He was accused of killing two white girls, Betty of 11 years old and Mary of 7 years old whose bodies were found near the house where the teenager resided with his parents.

Before the ugly incident, George stinney Jr. and his little sister were said to be last ones to see the girls alive.

As a community search party approached Stinney, he reportedly acknowledged seeing the girls earlier in the day when they asked him and his 8-year-old sister, Amié, if they’d seen any wildflowers.

Upon learning of the girls’ deaths, police arrested 14-year-old Stinney, who while in custody, allegedly confessed to the murders.

“The police were looking for someone to blame it on, so they used my brother as a scapegoat,” his sister Amie Ruffner told WLTX-TV.

According to thegrio, the trial only lasted 2 hours, and after less than 10 minutes of deliberation, the all-white all-male jury found him guilty of the first-degree murder of the two girls. The court refused to hear his appeal, and he was sentenced to die by electrocution just two months later.

Before the ex*****on, George spent 81 days without being able to see his parents.
He was trapped in a solitary cell, 80 km from his city. He was heard alone without the presence of his parents or a lawyer.
He was electrocuted with 5,380 volts in the head.

George stinney Jr. innocence was finally proven by a judge in South Carolina. The beam with which the two girls were killed, weighed more than 19.07 kilograms. Therefore, it was impossible for Stinney to be able to lift it, let alone be able to hit hard enough to kill the two girls.

Could a boy that small beat to death two girls, one of whom was roughly his size? Would he have had the strength to drag their bodies into a ditch? How could a Black child living in the Jim Crow South commit such a brazen crime against two white girls in the middle of the afternoon without attracting attention?”

Local attorneys Matt Burgess and Steve McKenzie who’d heard about Stinney’s story, set out to clear his name.

In December 2014, 70 years after Stinney’s ex*****on, South Carolina Judge Carmen Tevis Mullen vacated George Stinney, Jr.’s conviction based on the evidence provided by Burgess, and stated that the boy’s prosecution was marked by “fundamental, Constitutional violations of due process.”

Other than a supposed confession, there was no other physical evidence nor any witnesses to testify to his guilt.

In a report by CBS News, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Salas concluded “to a reasonable degree of psychiatric certainty that any confession given was a coerced, compliant false confession and is unreliable.”

It is by this case, Stephen King was inspired to write his book The Green Mile, which was taken to theaters in 1999.

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It is amazing when raw materials are processed to create work of art but how do we react when waste are recycled to create astonishing work of art....

Meet Nwokocha Earnest, the man who created different animals using waste tire.

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Jubilations as FG Lifts Twitter Ban

Users can now access the Bird App social media popularly known as Twitter.

According to Punch, the Federal Government lifted the suspension in the early hour of Thursday

Users can now accessed the platform without the use of Virtual Private Networks.

However, users have been sharing their thoughts on the suspension that lasted for over seven months.

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Meet Odudu Otu the winner of the 2021 Gulder Ultimate Search Season 12.

He emerged the Ultimate Craftsman after beating 20 contestants to find the Akolo chest.

He came in as a wild card and one of the two youngest contestants but now the champion of this year's edition.

As the winner of the Age of Craftsmanship edition, he will be going home with the total prize of N50 million worth of prizes which includes an SUV.