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  • Desmond Tutu back in hospital after surgery

    South African cleric and anti-apartheid icon, Desmond Tutu, was readmitted to hospital on Saturday to treat an infection following a surgery last week, his family said.

    Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, was discharged from hospital on Wednesday after a successful surgery to treat recurring infections that have afflicted him in the past.

    “The archbishop underwent the surgical procedure 10 days ago to address the cause of recurring infections resulting from past treatment received for prostate cancer,” Reuters quoted the family as saying in a brief statement.

    “The archbishop was readmitted on Saturday as a precaution after his surgical wound had shown signs of infection.”

    The 84-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner spoke against white-minority rule from his pulpit, earning him global acclaim.

  • Desmond Tutu to be hospitalised for two weeks

    Desmond Tutu to be hospitalised for two weeks

    South Africa’s Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu, has been put on a new course of antibiotic treatment that is expected to prolong his stay in hospital, his Foundation said on Thursday.

    Tutu is in good spirits and not in any pain and he will stay in hospital for another two weeks,” the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said in a statement.

    The 83-year-old Archbishop was re-admitted to a Cape Town hospital on Tuesday due to inflammation, unlike last time’s treatment of a “persistent infection”, Tutu’s daughter, the Rev. Canon Mpho Tutu, said earlier.

    “Tutu had humbly requested journalists not to anticipate daily updates on his condition.

    “Tutu is grateful to the media for its concern over his health and expressed appreciation for the prayers and good wishes from so many people,” she said.

    Tutu has been in and out of hospital in the past month. He was first hospitalised in mid-July and stayed for one week.

    According to Mpho, the admissions are not related to his treatment of prostate cancer as the cancer is under control.

  • Desmond Tutu supports Rise Above Terror campaign

    Desmond Tutu supports Rise Above Terror campaign

    Philanthropist Modupe Ozolua’s efforts at rehabilitating Boko Haram’s victims has got a key endorsement –that of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, recently hospitalised, who has found time to send a message, reports Assistant Editor (Arts) Ozolua Uhakheme.

    Despite his health challenges, South African social rights activist, Nobel laureate and patron of Empower54, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 83, who has been living with prostate cancer for 15 years, still shows strong interest in matters affecting Nigerians, especially victims of Boko Haram. He is reaching out to Nigerians through Modupe Ozolua’s NGO, Empower54’s Rise Above Terror campaign, preaching peace and religious tolerance.

    In his emotional message to victims of Boko Haram, he said ‘we are members of one human family born for goodness, for love and inter-dependence’ with no one being superior or inferior to the other. He also pledged whole-hearted support to  Empower54’S Rise Above Terror campaign.

    He said: “My dear sisters and brothers, although our skins may be different colours, we may speak different languages, and subscribe to different cultures and religions; we are members of one family. The human family. God’s family.  We are born for goodness. For love and inter-dependence. Non-superior. Non-inferior. God carries us all.”

    According to him, ‘terrorism has become a word familiar even to innocent children. Indeed in West Africa, terrorists specifically target children. Many of us have heard of Boko Haram’s cruelty, the innocent lives taken, girl-children kidnapped, families rendered homeless and destitute in their own land, stripped of hope, freedom and dignity.’

    The man of God went on: “We have seen on our television screens the anguish of parents uprooted and robbed of their most precious possessions. Their anguish is our anguish and God’s anguish is the father’s and mother’s pain. Yet, the authors of all our anxiety are members of our family too. Born in innocence and goodness of love. Human beings have the unique gifts to reason, reconcile, restore and repair. To resolve what may appear irresolvable. I am proud to be the Patron of Empower54, which rehabilitates internally displaced women and children in Nigeria by supporting the women to become self-sufficient and establishing schools for their children.

    “Princess Modupe Ozolua and her Empower54 team are enabling survivors of terrorism to regain independence, rekindle their faith in humanity.  I therefore whole-heartedly support their Rise Above Terror campaign, and ask you to do the same.”

  • The Pope and Desmond Tutu

    A strongly believe there’s a grand conspiracy by the world powers to force-feed the world with the gay bug before the turn of the new decade.

    It’s no mere coincidence that two of the world’s most revered religious leaders, the Pope and Desmond Tutu, made ‘disturbing’ statements in support of ‘Gayness’ in a space of three days. While the Pope’s was veiled, Desmond Tutu’s was brash; the Nobel laureate threatening not to go to heaven if he finds out God is homophobic. Now, if God was in support of homosexuals, why did he destroy Sodom and Gomorrah as written in the Bible? This is in addition to the aggressive pro-gay campaign the leaders of both the United States of America and Britain have embarked on in recent months.

    I see no reason why the people of the world shouldn’t clamour for the legalisation of present day sexual vices such as incest, child marriage, bestiality etc. After all, homosexuality was once seen as a crime by the same people at the forefront of the campaign for its acceptance.

    What is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander. Gay rights activists should henceforth include the aforementioned ‘sex crimes’ in their checklist of rights to be fought for.

    I still insist that homosexuality is an abnormality that can be corrected, either medically, through psychological therapy or through exorcism. It’s important to note that I don’t and can never hate gays; it’s only the act I detest.

    I pray God heals the world.

     

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  • South Africa’s Desmond Tutu: ‘I will not vote for ANC’

    South Africa’s Desmond Tutu: ‘I will not vote for ANC’

    South African elder statesman and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has said he would no longer vote for the ruling ANC.

    “I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone,” he wrote in South Africa’s Mail and Guardian newspaper.

    Inequality, violence and corruption are among the reasons costing the ANC his support, he added.

    Archbishop Tutu, 81, was a strong supporter of the ANC’s struggle against white minority rule.

    Former African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black leader after all-race elections in 1994.

    “The ANC was very good at leading us in the struggle to be free from oppression,” Archbishop Tutu wrote.

    “But it doesn’t seem to me now that a freedom-fighting unit can ­easily make the transition to becoming a political party,” he continued.

  • Nasarawa killing: 28 policemen found alive, 1 suspect arrested, says CP

    Nasarawa killing: 28 policemen found alive, 1 suspect arrested, says CP

    The Nasarawa State Commissioner of Police, Mr Abayomi Akeremale, has confirmed that 28 policemen have been found alive, following the attack by a militia group on May 7.

    Akeremale told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia, on Friday the some of the Policemen held hostage by the group during the attack were released on Friday morning.

    He said  that 17 corpses of the slain officers were yet to be recovered, explaining that a total of 93 police men were deployed for the operation out of which 43 were suspected to have been killed.

    Akeremale said that a suspect member of the militia had been arrested and was in police custody, adding that investigations on the incident were going on.

    NAN reports that as at time of filing this report, Akeremale was making arrangements to visit the Squadron 38 Mopol Base in Akwanga.

    The commissioner said the visit was to appeal to spouses and children of the slain policemen who had blocked the Akwanga-Lafia highway in protest over the killing.