30-year-old man in N17,000 fraud case, gets N.2m bail - Punch

A 30-year-old man, Femi Ajayi, who allegedly defrauded one Funmiliayo Oyetade of N17,000, was on Friday granted N200,000 bail by an Osun Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ile-Ife.

Ajayi is facing a charge of fraud.

Magistrate Dorcas Ajiboye, who granted the bail, added that the accused must provide one surety in like sum as parts of his bail conditions.

Ajiboye said the surety should swear to affidavit of means and must reside within the court’s jurisdiction.

She said the surety should show evidence of three-years tax payment to the Osun State Government.

The magistrate then adjourned the case until April 26 for mention.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Sunday Osanyintuyi, had told the court that the accused committed the offence in 2014 in Ido-Osun area of Ile-Ife.

Osanyintuyi said the accused collected the money from the complainant to plaster her house, which he failed to do.

“All efforts by the complainant to get back her money proved abortive, so she reported the matter to the Police,’’ he said.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 419 of the Criminal Law of Osun, 2002.

The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge. (NAN)

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Joe Biden Offers Piece of Advice to President Trump: ‘I Would Literally Stop Tweeting’

Former Vice President Joe Biden has some words of advice for President Trump about his social media habits.

“I would literally stop tweeting and start focusing,” Biden said Thursday at an event at the University of Pennsylvania, CNN reports. “The words of a president matter. They have enormous, enormous, enormous, reverberating sounds around the world. Every time a U.S. president speaks and says something, leaders and people around the world try to dissect what he means because it matters so much to their security, threats they face, whatever it is.”

Biden also repeated a piece of advice he’d already given to the new president: “Grow up.”

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Meet the altar boy who fought for ISIS

With his blue eyes, brown hair and beaming smile, young Michael Delefortrie looked every inch the angelic altar boy.

But fast forward twenty years, and Michael had changed his name to Younnes, traded his Christian faith for Islam, and the sleepy Belgian suburb he’d grown up in for the front lines of ISIS’ war in Syria.

Now, back in Belgium, he still expresses open support for the group’s warped ideology and says he wishes he could return to the group’s self-proclaimed Islamic State.

“I regret coming back,” he told me. “I want to live under the caliphate.”

Despite his shocking words, the most striking thing about the 28-year-old is how utterly unremarkable he appears. The first time we meet, in a café in the port city of Antwerp, he wears a hooded sweatshirt, sneakers and jeans (cuffed just above the ankle in a style that emulates the Prophet — though most people wouldn’t even notice).

He doesn’t shake hands with me, as a woman, but he is polite, makes eye contact, apologizes for being late, cracks jokes and even flirts a little with my young producer.

And while he dismisses his own nationality — “I’m not Belgian. I am Muslim” — and wants to see Western democracy replaced by the strictest form of Sharia law, the returned ISIS fighter is more than happy to accept welfare checks from the Belgian government.

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Gujarat: India state approves life term for killing cows

The BBC reports that the new amendment means Gujarat now has the toughest laws dealing with cow slaughter in India.

Under an amendment to the state's Animal Preservation Act, those found guilty of transporting beef will also be jailed for 10 years.

The cow is considered sacred by India's Hindu majority, and killing cows is illegal in many states.

But the new amendment means Gujarat now has the toughest laws on the issue in the country.

Offenders will face heavy fines, as well as time behind bars. The penalty for either act has been doubled from 50,000 rupees ($771; £618) to 100,000 rupees.

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Free eBook: "The Hardcore Truth: Interview with an Ex-Porn Producer"

Free eBook: "The Hardcore Truth: Interview with an Ex-Porn Producer" by Fradd and Pauling

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In the battle for purity, you’ll want to share this eBook with your church. Let this former porn producer dispel common myths people may have about the industry. 

From Covenant Eyes, “In this transcript, Matt Fradd interviews Donny about 10 common myths about porn. Is porn is truly “glamorous”? Does it liberate women? Is it just healthy, adult entertainment? Does porn enhance sexual intimacy? 

Weird Science - Sex robots: Experts debate the rise of the love droids (BBC)

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Image captionFor some, sex with robots is a dream but for others it is a soul-destroying nightmare

Would you have sex with a robot? Would you marry one? Would a robot have the right to say no to such a union?

These were just a few of the questions being asked at the second Love and Sex with Robots conference hastily rearranged at Goldsmiths University in London after the government in Malaysia - the original location - banned it.

It has proved controversial, not only to countries with conservative views.

There were no representatives from the sex industry in attendance and no sex robots on display, leading some to question the point of the event.

Read more here.

Spider venom may offer stroke therapy

Protein extracted from funnel webs may help minimise the effects of brain damage after a stroke. Scientists found a single dose of the protein Hi1a worked on lab rats.

They said it showed "great promise as a future stroke treatment" but had not yet been tested in human trials.

The Stroke Association said the research was at its early stages but it would "welcome any treatment that has the potential to reduce the damage caused by stroke".