The world is gearing up for the Olympics and Vogue magazine is following suit. In this spread, gorgeous model Joan Smalls is featured in a “Cut to the Chase” story as she trails the world’s fastest man, Jamaican born Usain Bolt.

For raising false alarm, Mr. Ibrahim Abdulahi, 24, has been arraigned before the Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on a two-count charge of unlawfully conducting himself in a manner likely to cause breach of public peace.
He was accused of raising false alarm .
Abdulahi raised the false alarm that his manhood got lost as a result of a handshake with Michael Eneh, a claim he knew was untrue.
The police alleged in the suit that the accused on 3 September, 2011 at about 1100hours at Idumagbo Avenue, Lagos Island, Lagos, made a statement to the police at Adeniji Adele Police Division that his manhood disappeared after Michael Ene shook hands with him.
But when he was taken to the hospital for examination, the doctor on duty declared that there was noting wrong with him and that his manhood was functioning normally.
The victim, it was learnt, allegedly raised an alarm that his penis suddenly became smaller than it was before Ene shook hands with him, but before the situation could degenerate into a fight, the elders in the area advised the youths who wanted to lynch the suspect not to take the law into their own hands but that he should be taken to a nearby hospital where doctors disapproved the claims of Abdulahi.
The matter was reported to the police at Adeniji Adele Police Division and after investigation, Ibrahim was arraigned before the Igbosere Magistrate’s Court.
The offence, according to the prosecutor ASP Julius Oyakhilome, is punishable under Section 219(d) and 192 of the Criminal Code.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge and the presiding Magistrate, Mrs. Bamibiwon, granted him bail in the sum of N20,000 with one surety in like sum.
She adjourned the matter till 20 October, 2011 for mention.
The accused was remanded in Ikoyi Prison when he could not perfect his bail condition.

‘Busy’ facing extradition
US Gov’t wants dancehall artiste
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

POPULAR Jamaican dancehall singjay ‘Busy Signal’ was yesterday arrested by members of the Fugitive Apprehension Team at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston as he disembarked a flight, at 3:45 pm, after being deported from the United Kingdom.
The artiste, whose real name is Glendale Goshia Gordon, but who has been going by the name Reanno Devon Gordon, was held in London on Friday on suspicion that he was travelling on false documents.
BUSY SIGNAL… has been under surveillance for several years
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Jamaica Observer sources say Busy Signal had performed in Amsterdam and Paris last week, but cut short his tour after he apparently got wind of the fact that an extradition warrant was issued for him by the United States Government.
However, when he got to England he was refused entry into that country and detained by British Immigration officials.
The Americans have accused Gordon, who was a resident alien, of fleeing that country in 2002 before he could be sentenced on a cocaine charge in October that year.
An Observer source said yesterday that the artiste, who got bail in March 2002, is suspected of removing an ankle bracelet — used as a tracking device by US authorities to ascertain the whereabouts of a suspect on bail — and fleeing to Jamaica.
Police yesterday said the artiste has been under surveillance for several years.
He has been travelling extensively but has steered clear of the US.
Gordon is scheduled to appear in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. If he is extradited, he will be first high-profile Jamaican to be surrendered to the US authorities in the two years since former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke was captured and sent to New York on drug-related charges.
A sentencing hearing is set to begin today for Coke, who pleaded guilty to racketeering.
Busy Signal is known for the popular hits One More Night — a remake of the Phil Collins original, Jamaica Love and Nah Go A Jail Again.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/-Busy–facing-extradition#ixzz1vaplrTdm

Man sets dogs on cops

Silas Nkala Staff Reporter | 2012-05-19 10:36:00
BINGA -A 48-year-old man from the Sinamsanga area who attacked two police constables and set dogs on them was on Thursday slapped with an effective six- month jail term.
The police officers had gone to Leonard Mutales home to arrest his son on assault charges.

Mutale pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting the officers and obstructing the course of justice when he appeared before Binga resident magistrate Stephen Ndlovu.

The court heard that on May 3 this year, Constable Piniel Magama (21), who is based at Siabuwa Police Station, went to Mutales home to arrest his son Trymore for assault charges.

Mutale pounced on Magama attacking him with fists before setting dogs on him.

Magama took to his heels with the dogs in hot pursuit.

Magama went back to the station where he teamed up with Constable Asborn Muduluza to go back to Mutales home to arrest the suspect. On arrival, Mutale pelted them with stones and logs and chased them away.

The two policemen failed to arrest Trymore.
Mutale was subsequently arrested and charged with the two counts.

In his plea, Mutale told the court that he was angered by the way Magama approached him and his son at his home.
“The policeman was bullying my son and at some point he ordered him to put his head on the ground saying he must carry Zimbabwe and that made me attack the policemen”, said Mutale.
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Esther Saves Mordecai

Esther 3-8:14

The story that follows in chapters 3-8 gives details of a personal conflict that escalates into a nation-wide pogrom against the Jewish people.

Mordecai refused to bow to the highest court official, Haman the Agagite. In a court with strict protocol, Mordecai’s refusal to bow was a grave insult that naturally infuriated Haman, and a feud started between the two men.

When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance to him, Haman was infuriated. But he thought it beneath him to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, having been told who Mordecai’s people were, Haman plotted to destroy all the Jews.

Read Esther 3:1-15.

There is no reason given for Mordecai’s refusal to bow. It was not against normal Jewish practice to bow to a ruler or his representative (see Joseph and his brothers in Egypt, Genesis 43:26). But Mordecai’s ancestor Saul had been an enemy of Haman’s ancestor Agag, king of the Amalekites (see 1 Samuel 15), and this may have been Mordecai’s reason. In any case, he did not follow the accepted practice, and thereby placed himself and others in danger.

Haman’s anger shifted. It had been focused on Mordecai, but finding that Mordecai was a Jew, his fury expanded to include the whole Jewish people. In a scene that formed a blueprint for anti-Semitic propaganda, Haman fed the mind of the king with ideas about a people who were different, who obeyed different laws, and who were a danger to the kingdom.

Read Esther 4:1-17

The Jews, said Haman, must be eliminated for the good of the kingdom. The king agreed, not knowing that Esther, his beloved queen, and Mordecai, the man to whom he owed his life, were both Jews. A day was set aside for the slaughter, and a decree issued to every corner of the empire.

The absolute power of the king seems strange to us, accustomed as we are to the democratic rule of law. But in Canaan and Egypt, a king was thought of as a living god. He was a sacred person who embodied, in his person, the state or kingdom that he governed. His physical body was clearly not immortal, but he was thought of as someone who was more than human, with a special and unique connection with the immortal gods. Because of this, he could do what he wanted even when, as in this case, it was clearly unjust.