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Former Mississippi Department of Corrections Officials Sentenced for Using Excessive Force Against an Inmate

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  Take interest in Beauty, Health and Wellness Three former Mississippi Department of Corrections officials were sentenced today for using excessive force against an inmate, involving the use of dangerous weapons and resulting in bodily injury.   According to court documents, on July 11, 2019, at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, Corrections Officer (CO) Jessica Hill, CO LaToya Richardson and Case Manager Nicole Moore assaulted a defenseless inmate, L.C., while L.C. was in the fetal position and not resisting in any fashion. Hill struck L.C. several times with an OC cannister and then repeatedly punched her in the head. Richardson kicked the inmate four times in the head and upper torso, and Moore kicked L.C. one time in the back of the head. Hill continued to strike L.C., who was still laying on the ground in the fetal position, until fellow prison staff intervened to stop Hill’s assault. All three defendants previously pleaded guilty to their respective ...

Industrial Court rules on ASCSN Leadership Tussle Thursday

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 The case between the Association of Senior  Civil Servants of Nigeria(ASCSN) and its ousted president, Comrade Innocent Bola-Audu comes up on Thursday 26th October and Friday 26th October, 2023. Shop @ Oriflame A press statement issued by a former chairman of the Oyo state council of the  Trade Union Congress(TUC), Comrade Andrew Emelieze called on members of the association  to mobilize to the venue in solidarity with Comrade Audu.

The Acquisition of Knowledge

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  Nigerian society revolves around rumor bandied tradition. This largely explains why the pursuit of knowledge is based on other considerations and not for knowledge's sake. Irrespective of the number of educational institutions at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels across the country, it is still an illiterate society. Shop @ Oriflame The implantation of widespread falsehood and ignorance is very disturbing. Indeed, the non-nonchalant  and carefree attitude of the citizenry towards acquiring knowledge is a reflection of the faulty selection process of the leadership at all levels of government.  

Don't Offend God

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   The fear of God is a valid motive not to commit sin and is also a good reason to do the right thing all the time. It is a health fear, not only of sin's painful consequences,  but of sinning against one who loves us and whom we depend on for our very life. Job 1 : 1-8 Shop @ Oriflame There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name  was  Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. 2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. 4 And his sons went and feasted  in their  houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 And it was so, when the days of  their  feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified t...