FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS MOURN WOMAN SHOT BY ICE AGENT AFTER MAKING MINNEAPOLIS HER HOME. (PHOTO).
Family and neighbors mourn woman shot by ICE agent after making Minneapolis her home Before she was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, 37-year-old Renee Good had just dropped her youngest child off at an elementary school in Minneapolis, the city she and her family had recently begun to call home. As Trump administration officials continued Thursday to describe Good as a domestic terrorist who tried to ram federal agents with her Honda Pilot, those who knew her remembered someone very different: a gentle, kind, and openhearted mother, wife, and neighbor. Good, her wife and her 6-year-old son had recently moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to a quiet Minneapolis neighborhood lined with older homes and small apartment buildings. Some front porches were still decorated with pride flags and lingering holiday lights. In the days following her death, neighbors grew weary of media attention. One handwritten sign taped to a front door read, “NO MEDIA ...
The ongoing trial of a former governor of Abia State,Orji Uzor Kalu.continued on Monday June 5,2017 before Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court Lagos,sitting in Ikoyi,Lagos with a prosecution witness,Romanus Madu,Permanent Secretary,Government House,Umuahia,Denying knowledge of some bank drafts that emanated from Fidelity Bank Plc during the administration of Kalu.Kalu is being prosecuted alongside his company,Slok Nigeria Limited and his former Commissioner for Finance,Jones James Udeogu,for money laundering to the tune of N3.2 billion.In his testimony,Madu,a former cashier at the Government House,Umuahia,during the administration of Kalu,told the court that he was invited by the Commission some years ago and was showed some documents,including bank drafts and cheques amounting to several millions of Naira that emanated from Fidelity Bank bearing his signature and handwriting as the marker.led in evidence by the prosecution counsel,Rotimi Jacobs,Madu,however,told the court that he was not a signatory to the bank drafts.Madu,who is the fourth prosecution witness,PW4,also denied know;ledge of the handwritten applications for some of the bank drafts bearing his signature and handwritting.He further told the court that there were other fictitious names that appeared on some of the bank drafts.The evidence against the defendants was tendered and admitted in evidence as exhibits E10 to E 69 by the court.However,counsel to the defendants urged the court to reject the evidence on the grounds that his signature and handwriting were forged in respect of the bank drafts before the court.Jacobs,therefore,prayed the court to overrule the objections of the defence counsel.Justice Idris,after carefully reviewing the submissions of both counsels,adjourned the matter to June 6,2017 to determine the authenticity of the signatories and handwriting applications.
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