A Nigerian woman, Jennifer Akudihor who is on holiday in the US has been arrested by Kansas city police department for allegedly shop lifting clothing items and accessories worth nearly $2,000 at Oak Park Mall in Kansas last week Tuesday.
According to KMBC.com, Police reports states that Jennifer who was with two toddlers and an infant when she was arrested, hid 66 items in shopping bags and inside the stroller she was pushing through Macy's at Oak Park Mall.
She has been charged with felony theft and ordered to hand over her passport. Jennifer was in court last Wednesday and her bail was set at $2,500. She was apologetic during her first court appearance.
“The officer in the report said that she was very apologetic and remorseful, and that does go a long way, and he put that in the report, so I think it does help in this situation. Everybody has a story. There’s always a lot of reasons why people do this, and it’s not for us to decide. It’s up to the courts and the judge to look at her case.” said Sgt. Gary Mason of the Overland Park Police Department.
Vice President Joe Biden watches an honor guard carry a casket
containing the remains of his son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau
Biden, into St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington,
Delaware, for funeral services. (Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP)
Joe
Biden’s son Beau died on May 30, and a little more than three months
later, the vice president acknowledged that he was struggling with the
decision on whether to enter the presidential race. To most people —
whether or not they have a child, let alone lost one — the idea must
seem on par with entering the Tour de France three months after
open-heart surgery. If Biden runs, he will spend much of the next year
on the phone with potential donors, needing to get past the awkward
condolences before moving on to hitting them up for money. If he is
nominated, he may face Donald Trump, who has shown a keen instinct for
going for the jugular and no reluctance to stick a knife in it.
Having
trampled most of the boundaries of comity in political discourse – by,
for instance, making fun of his rivals’ looks – could Trump be trusted
not to taunt an opponent about the death of a family member? (“I just
don’t think he’s up to the job. Maybe it’s because his son died. I don’t
know.”) And if Biden wins, he will take on the most demanding job in
the world a year and a half after burying his son — at a time when,
experience teaches, most ordinary people will barely be climbing out of
the paralysis of grief.
But
successful politicians aren’t ordinary people; they are driven by
ambition and a sense of their own destiny that overrides almost every
other sentiment. Not many willingly pass up a run for higher office if
they have even a chance to win, and most can convince themselves they
do. But Biden was clearly ambivalent in his now-famous interview with
Stephen Colbert: “I don’t think any man or woman should run for
president unless, number one, they know exactly why they would want to
be president and, number two, they can look at folks out there and say,
‘I promise you, you have my whole heart, my whole soul, my energy, and
my passion to do this. And I’d be lying if I said that I knew I was
there.” I don’t know Biden and have no insight into his thinking, but I
know, both as a journalist and a father, something about what he is
going through and some of the things he should be weighing, and that the
rest of us should think about if he does run.
Politics
is played for keeps, as Biden knows as well as anyone. As a grieving
father, Biden is permitted to show his emotions in public, but as a
candidate, he can only show strength. Biden’s first run for the Senate
coincided with the 1972 presidential campaign, when Sen. Ed Muskie,
D-Maine, denouncing a newspaper attack on his wife, was photographed
with droplets on his face that might have been tears. Or they might have
been, as he claimed, melting snowflakes, but it was too late: The
implication of weakness was fatal to his campaign.From
now until the election, if he runs, Biden must perform a delicate
balancing act: He has to keep intact his vaunted “authenticity,” the
human qualities that voters find so appealing, without becoming known as
the candidate of grief. He must not give even the slightest appearance
that he is seeking attention or support on the basis of sympathy — and
not just because voters would turn away from him. The more insidious
danger is to his own conscience; he has to face himself in the mirror
and be certain he isn’t using this tragedy as a vehicle for his own
ambition.
While the public expected a decision from Mercedes-Benz on whether its pickup truck will be sold in the U.S. by the end of the year, it appears the manufacturer will need a little longer to weigh its options.
“The
product is still very fluid,” Cannon said at the auto show here. “We’ve
got time to make this decision, so we’re not hurrying with it. We want
to make sure the product fits this market’s needs. If it doesn’t, we’re
not bringing it — I can tell you that.”
The midsize
pickup, a Daimler/Nissan joint venture, is currently being developed
for other regions of the world — its existence in the U.S. is what
remains in question, and the answer will be decided by whether or not
the company believes the vehicle can add value to that segment of
Mercedes.
If Mercedes
does decide to send the truck to the U.S., the company will freeze its
design concept so that U.S. product planners can have some say in what
will actually land on American soil (note: just don’t ask us Texans how
to design it, or we’ll probably propose to put giant cattle guards on
the front.)
Originally thought to be the concept for a work truck,
Cannon noted in the latest update that the pickup would probably have
to be pitched as a lifestyle vehicle instead if it was sold here.
Tradespeople
“probably don’t want a Mercedes-Benz on the front because they’d be
worried about the statement that’s making to their clients,” he said.
But plenty of Mercedes customers also have a pickup in their garage
because they like the trucks’ image and flexibility.
With the
lower gas prices resulting in booming truck and SUV sales in the U.S., a
Mercedes truck might not be too far-reaching of an idea to bring to the
market. One could easily see it competing against the luxurified trucks
from Ford, GMC or Ram that top $70,000 or more.
And for
Mercedes, the goal is to compete in the market by virtue of the
vehicle’s distinctiveness — not to simply into the truck-manufacturing
mold:
“You
don’t come into a market that’s highly established to just be an
also-ran and just put the badge on the front,” [Cannon] said. “So if we
cannot bring the Mercedes-Benz attributes to the segment, then we
won’t.”
But if your daily driver is going to just have a badge on the front, no one can really complain about it being a Mercedes one. Am I right?
I’ll take one in AMG spec with a twin-turbo engine. And the cattle guard, please.
In a statement released this evening by his Senior Special Assistant on
Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, President Buhari distanced
himself from the ongoing trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki at the
Code of Conduct Bureau. In the statement, Shehu said that the laws
binding the Code of Conduct bureau and Tribunal forbids interference
from external forces from any quarters.
Garba said those who were accusing Buhari of witch hunting Saraki are uninformed
"This therefore is purely a judicial process and has nothing to do with
the Presidency. Let them hire a good team of lawyers to prove their
innocence. Government has no desire to persecute anybody. The President
has vowed to respect the rule of law and this is what he is doing by
staying out of this matter. He has said times without number that the
war against corruption has no sacred cows," the statement in part read.
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo paid a
condolence visit to the Awolowo family at their Ikenne Home in Ogun
state yesterday over the death of the family matriarch Chief Mrs H.I.D
Awolowo at the age of 99. Photo after the cut shows APC chieftain, Bola
Tinubu visiting the home...
Mama Peace still shaking people up...lol. Nigeria's former first lady
patience jonathan today delayed the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari
from disembarking at
the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe airport as Patience
Jonathanss
private jet was landing.
According to an eye witness, Mrs Buhari, who
was returning from Kano where she went to pay a condolence visit to the
family of late former AIG Ibrahim Babankowa, had to taxi on ground as
she could not disembark from the plane carrying her as the presidential
wing was being occupied by the former first lady.
Politics
is played for keeps, as Biden knows as well as anyone. As a grieving
father, Biden is permitted to show his emotions in public, but as a
candidate, he can only show strength. Biden’s first run for the Senate
coincided with the 1972 presidential campaign, when Sen. Ed Muskie,
D-Maine, denouncing a newspaper attack on his wife, was photographed
with droplets on his face that might have been tears. Or they might have
been, as he claimed, melting snowflakes, but it was too late: The
implication of weakness was fatal to his campaign.From
now until the election, if he runs, Biden must perform a delicate
balancing act: He has to keep intact his vaunted “authenticity,” the
human qualities that voters find so appealing, without becoming known as
the candidate of grief. He must not give even the slightest appearance
that he is seeking attention or support on the basis of sympathy — and
not just because voters would turn away from him. The more insidious
danger is to his own conscience; he has to face himself in the mirror
and be certain he isn’t using this tragedy as a vehicle for his own
ambition.
