Oscar Pistorious pre-sentence hearing to continue today

Oscar pistorious is to return to court today for a pre-sentence hearing over whether he should go to prison for killing his girlfriend.
The athlete was found guilty of culpable homicide of steenkamp last month but was cleared of murder.
The South African defence team is trying to show that prison is an inappropriate punishment.
The pre-sentence hearing is expected to last several days.
The sprinter denied murdering his girlfriend on valentine's day last year claiming he shot her by mistake.


SOURCE: PUNCH

America Index Ebola victim dead

The first Ebola victim in America, Thomas Eric Duncan has died despite huge effort to save his life.
The 42 years old man died in a presbyterian hospital in dallas yesterday.
He was placed on dialyses and on an experimental drug Brincidofovir after his condition became critical.
According to the World Health Organisation, EVD has infected 7,000 people in the     llatest outbreak and has claimed the lives of 3,400 of its victims mostly in West Africa.

And just when we taught the Nigerian troops has made a huge progress in the fight against Boko Haram, another blow has come up.
Well the supposed dead leader of the Boko Haram group, Abubakar shekau has come out in a video claiming he is strong and aiive.
He described the news as a propaganda, stressing that he would only die when Allah decides.
He also said that Boko Haram was responsible for shooting down the Nigeria Airforce jet fighter which was reportedly missing.
Director of defence information Maj.Gen Chris Olukolade had last week said that Abubakar shekau was killed in one of the operation in Kodunga, Borno state