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  The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership has accused a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, of plotting another medical trip overseas to stall his ongoing corruption trial. Chairman of the group, Debo Adeniran, said this in a statement on Monday. He said, “The fresh plot by the former governor of Abia State to re-enact his fake foreign medical trip is a renewed bid to stall his trial. “It was said that the defence against him would start on Monday before the Federal High Court in Lagos. “Also, it was gathered that the former governor and his cohort are working towards another fake medical trip in order to frustrate his resumed hearing for the second time.” The trial of Kalu was stalled on Monday due to the absence of his lawyer. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting him and two others for money laundering and conspiracy. Adeniran added, “We urge the court to expedite action on the former governor in order to restore public con

Commemorating 400 years since arrival of enslaved Africans   02:21 Hampton, Virginia (CNN) 400 years ago , a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Point Comfort on the shores of Virginia. The landing marked the  beginning of slavery  in British North America, forever transforming the modern world. Thousands of people gathered at that same port this weekend in what is now Hampton, Virginia, to honor those Africans, who were instrumental to the founding of the United States. "It marks the beginning of the foundation of this nation, of which slavery is deeply embedded," said Asia Leeds, co-director of African diaspora studies at Spelman College. "So we have the beginnings of not just US governing systems, right? They emerge out of this colonial history. But also the foundation of American wealth." Over the course of three days, people came together at Fort Monroe to remember and reflect on the 400th anniversary of one of the darkest

Commemorating 400 years since arrival of enslaved Africans   02:21 Hampton, Virginia (CNN) 400 years ago , a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Point Comfort on the shores of Virginia. The landing marked the  beginning of slavery  in British North America, forever transforming the modern world. Thousands of people gathered at that same port this weekend in what is now Hampton, Virginia, to honor those Africans, who were instrumental to the founding of the United States. "It marks the beginning of the foundation of this nation, of which slavery is deeply embedded," said Asia Leeds, co-director of African diaspora studies at Spelman College. "So we have the beginnings of not just US governing systems, right? They emerge out of this colonial history. But also the foundation of American wealth." Over the course of three days, people came together at Fort Monroe to remember and reflect on the 400th anniversary of one of the darkest

Commemorating 400 years since arrival of enslaved Africans   02:21 Hampton, Virginia (CNN) 400 years ago , a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Point Comfort on the shores of Virginia. The landing marked the  beginning of slavery  in British North America, forever transforming the modern world. Thousands of people gathered at that same port this weekend in what is now Hampton, Virginia, to honor those Africans, who were instrumental to the founding of the United States. "It marks the beginning of the foundation of this nation, of which slavery is deeply embedded," said Asia Leeds, co-director of African diaspora studies at Spelman College. "So we have the beginnings of not just US governing systems, right? They emerge out of this colonial history. But also the foundation of American wealth." Over the course of three days, people came together at Fort Monroe to remember and reflect on the 400th anniversary of one of the darkest

  Polished diamond … Miguel Fisac’s Pagoda, outside Madrid, which was demolished in 1999. T he Basilica at Arantzazu in the Basque country was a collaboration between the sculptor  Jorge Oteiza , who had just returned to Spain after 15 years in self-imposed exile, and the architect  Francisco Javier S áenz de Oiza  (who would become celebrated for his Torres Blancos building in Madrid). Though they won the competition for the building in 1949, it was not consecrated until 1959, after a disputatious decade of ecclesiastical factionalism and local objections. The latter were preposterous given the building’s remoteness at the end of a vertiginous mountain road. The Basilica is the earliest of several Spanish churches whose novel dispositions of space anticipated and influenced the liturgical changes that would be stipulated by the second  Vatican  council in 1962. The exterior is tough, fortified, uncompromising. Its break from the conventions of sacred design was a papal snub to Fr