TWO men were jailed for their roles in dealing heroin and crack cocaine for the Bobby Line in Bradford. Luqman Khan was imprisoned for six years for helping to operate the line and multiple offences of supplying Class A drugs in April 2019. Mohammed Arfan was locked up for two and a half years for two offences of trafficking drugs with Khan in the Leeds Road area of Bradford. Khan, 23, of Tagore Court, Fagley, Bradford, was described by the judge sentencing him as “a very busy and active street dealer.” He pleaded guilty to supplying crack cocaine on April 3, 10 and 29th, 2019, and heroin on April 10.
Daily Monitor
Sunday January 24 2021
Summary
In his last position, Edgar Buhanga served as the deputy director in charge of planning, monitoring and research. In that capacity, he oversaw the system of protected areas, research and monitoring of animal species both inside and outside protected areas, veterinary services to ensure wildlife is healthy as well as restocking from one area to another.
On October 20, 2020 he retired. A father of five and teetotaler, Buhanga’s initial connection with tourism and travel was in 1989. Public service advertised jobs and he applied. In January 1990, he was hired as a game biologist and researcher at the current Uganda Wildlife Education and Conservation Centre, also known as Entebbe Zoo.
Cosmas Odoemena argues that Bishop Kukah spoke the truth to power
I read an opinion piece entitled, “Fair play or foul?” published in the January 19, 2021 edition of THISDAY by a fellow who was upbraiding Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah for his forthrightness. The person started, “One of the emerging dilemmas in Nigeria’s democracy is the serious threat it regularly confronts from utterances of people lacking experience and wisdom in politics or governance who exploit the unscrupulous exuberance of the media to ambush public attention.” But all through this person’s write-up he kept referring to Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, as “Rev. Father Matthew Hassan Kukah”! At first, I wanted to give the writer the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he was ignorant of Kukah’s position in the Catholic Church. But methinks otherwise, because the writer went further to say, “Kukah was ordained a Catholic Priest on December 19, 1976 and attended the University of Ibadan for a diploma in
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