SOMALI WORLD CUP REFEREE DENIED ENTRY TO UNITED STATES. (PHOTO).

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 Somali World Cup Referee Denied Entry to United States Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Artan, has been denied entry into the United States despite holding a valid visa, according to a senior official in Somalia’s sports ministry. Artan, who is set to become the first Somali referee to officiate at the FIFA World Cup finals, was stopped at Miami International Airport and subsequently returned to Istanbul, where he had been residing. The reason for the denial was not immediately disclosed. However, Somalia is among the countries affected by a travel ban introduced by the administration of Donald Trump. Reacting to the development, Ciise Aden Abshir, a senior adviser to Somalia’s Ministry of Youth and Sports and a former national team captain, described Artan as one of Africa’s most respected referees. “Omar Artan is among Africa’s most respected referees and deserves the support of the entire football community,” Abshir told AFP on Monday. He added that preventing the referee fro...
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MAN PARADED PUBLICLY FOR KILLING SACRED PYTHON IN ANAMBRA. (VIDEO/PHOTO).

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 MAN PARADED PUBLICLY FOR KILLING SACRED PYTHON


A native of Anambra State was paraded through his local community for allegedly killing a sacred python. 


The python represented an "ancestral father" and killing it is regarded as patricide in several Igbo and Delta communities in Nigeria. 


It is a taboo to trap or harm a python, and where one is found dead in the wild, great lamentation is raised for it and it is buried with cultural ceremonies that befit a man. 


In the case of the Anambra man, the dead python was wrapped around his neck and he was made to roam the community in a show of shame.

Watch video below. 


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